Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?

Gary Thomas

Aug 2016 · Zondervan · Narrated by Gary L. Thomas

About this audiobook

What if God designed marriage to make you holy instead of happy? What if your relationship isn't as much about you and your spouse as it is about you and God?

In Sacred Marriage, bestselling author Gary Thomas uncovers the ways that your marriage can become a doorway to a closer walk with God and with each other. Join over one million others who have already uncovered Thomas's tips for fostering a sacred marriage.

Within the pages of Sacred Marriage, Thomas invites you to see how God can use your relationship with your spouse as a discipline and a motivation to love God more and reflect more of the character of his Son.

In addition to life-changing insights from Scripture, church history, and time-tested wisdom from Christian classics, you'll find practical advice and techniques to make your marriage happier by becoming holier husbands and wives.

In Sacred Marriage, Thomas will give you all of the tools you need to:

• Turn marital struggles into spiritual and personal appreciation
• Love your spouse with a stronger sense of purpose
• Confront your weaknesses and sin in order to grow your relationship with God and with your spouse
• Partner in the spiritual growth and character formation of your spouse
• Transform a tired marriage into a relationship filled with awe and respect

Thomas reveals that sacred marriages teach us to love God and others well by fostering a healthy sex life, a strong prayer life, and a rich spiritual life. God uses our marriages to help us grow in character, in prayer, in worship, and in service--we just have to recognize that the purpose of marriage is holiness, not happiness.

Each copy also includes thought-provoking discussion questions designed to spark conversation between couples and small groups, allowing you to dive deeper into the lessons that Thomas shares in Sacred Marriage.

Join the one million others who have already started on their journey to transforming their relationship with their spouses and with their Creator.

Ratings and reviews

No matter where you are at in marriage, just starting out, a seasoned veteran, or at the mid-stretch, whether you're in the highest of times, the lowest of times, or just plain at whits end . . . THIS IS A MUST READ FOR ALL MARRIED, TO BE MARRIED, ABOUT TO END MARRIAGE, ETC. ! ! ! Gary Thomas has such a way of capturing you from the first page of the book—talking about the first studies being done on human corpses (yes, in a marriage book [hehe])—all the way to the very last period of the the final page! You and your Creator, yes Him, will have such an incredible, loving relationship when you are finished with this book. AND . . .as a result, you should also have the most incredible marriage relationship that will come along with that as well! Thank you so much Gary for the work you are doing to honor your Creator first, and your love, your wife, second! Your brother in Him

I liked this book a lot! So many truths and lots of helpful insights and advice. I will be rereading part of it for sure.

About the author

Gary Thomas's writing and speaking draw people closer to Christ and closer to others. He is the author of twenty books that together have sold more than two million copies and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. These books include Sacred Marriage, Cherish, Married Sex, and the Gold Medallion-award winning Authentic Faith. Gary holds a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Western Washington University, a master's degree in systematic theology from Regent College (Vancouver, BC), and an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Western Seminary (Portland, OR). He serves as a teaching pastor at Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.